Day 1 - Thursday 15 October, 2026

All times are in China Standard Time (CST, UTC+8)
8:40 a.m. WELCOME REMARKS 
9:00 a.m. Keynote Talk
The Dance of Proteins and DNA in Nucleotide Excision Repair
Wei Yang, National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA
Session I: Frontiers in Genome Maintenance Mechanisms  
10:00 a.m. Invited Talk
Mitsuko Masutani, Nagasaki University, Japan
10:25 a.m. COFFEE BREAK
10:55 a.m. Invited Talk
Humanizing Yeast Origin Recognition Complex for the Study of Human Diseases
Bik Tye, Cornell University, USA
11:20 a.m. Invited Talk
The genomic outcomes of DNA breakage and chromosome fragmentation
Cheng-Zhong Zhang, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, USA
11:45 a.m. Invited Talk
René Medema, Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, The Netherlands 
12:10 p.m. Session Panel
12:25 p.m. LUNCH
Session II: Targeting DNA replication and repair vulnerabilities
2:00 p.m. Invited Talk
Philipp Oberdoerffer, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA
2:25 p.m. Invited Talk
Ting Liu, Zhejiang University, China
2:50 p.m. Invited Talk
Nicola Curtin, Newcastle University, UK
3:15 p.m. Session Panel
3:30 p.m. COFFEE BREAK
Session III: DDR defects and synthetic lethality 
4:00 p.m. Invited Talk
SPOTing molecular switches of cell plasticity
Xin Lu, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK
4:25 p.m. Invited Talk
BRCAness Regulation by OFD1 and Centrosomal Cytoskeleton Dynamics
Qing Zhong, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, China
4:50 p.m. Invited Talk
Christopher Lord, The Institute of Cancer Research, UK
5:15 p.m. Session Panel
5:30 p.m. Short Talk
5:45 p.m. Short Talk
6:00 p.m. End of day

Day 2 - Friday 16 October, 2026

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9:00 a.m. Keynote Talk
Zhijian ‘James’ Chen, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA
Session IV: DDR-targeted combination therapy
10:00 a.m. Invited Talk
Feng Wang, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, China
10:25 a.m. COFFEE BREAK
10:55 a.m. Invited Talk
Liang Kang, Sun Yat-sen University, China
11:20 a.m. Invited Talk
Zhenkun Lou, Mayo Clinic, USA
11:45 a.m. Session Panel
12:00 p.m. Short Talk
12:15 p.m. LUNCH
Session V: Resistance mechanisms associated with DDR deficiency
2:00 p.m. Invited Talk
Metabolic mediated DNA Repair Contributes to the Chemosensitivity in Cancer
Jian Yuan, School of Medicine, Tongji University, China
2:25 p.m. Invited Talk
PARP inhibitors induce centromeric DNA rearrangements
Stephen West, The Francis Crick Institute, UK
2:50 p.m. Invited Talk
Elaine Sanij, St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research, Australia
3:15 p.m. Session Panel
3:30 p.m. COFFEE BREAK
4:00 p.m. Short Talk
 
4:15 p.m. Meet-the-Editor Session
5:00 p.m. Poster Session
6:00 p.m. End of day

Day 3 - Saturday 17 October, 2026

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Session VI: Genomic instability and innate immune signaling
9:00 a.m. Invited Talk
Li Lan, Duke University, USA
9:25 a.m. Invited Talk
Zhongsheng You, Chinese Institutes for Medical Research, China
9:50 a.m. Invited Talk
Yaping Huang, Chinese Institutes for Medical Research, China
10:15 a.m. COFFEE BREAK
10:45 a.m. Invited Talk
Challenges and Opportunities in PARP-Based Cancer Therapy
Shan Zha, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, USA
11:10 a.m. Panel Session
 
11:25 a.m. Short Talk
 
11:40 a.m. Short Talk
 
11:55 a.m. Short Talk
 
12:10 p.m. CLOSING REMARKS
Preliminary program – subject to change. Last updated: Aug 21, 2026.

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